yeah it was at Hongkou last time too. I'm pretty sure we got tickets from touts outside but it was pretty much a capacity crowd and given the large Korean population here it's probably worth heading t...

The football I mean, not the currency exchange, although, who knows?...

The last time they did this it was a fantastic atmosphere....

my money is on a trained panda...

incidentally, I have to agree with Cameron's piece. Although i'll probably still try and go to one of the games. After all, an international football match (even in a crap tournament with weakened tea...

actually, I think Shanghai Stadium is hosting matches from today, starting around about now with Australia vs Serbia. It'll be followed later this evening by Ivory Coast and Argentina (minus Messi). T...

I saw YACHT at Yue festival last year and he turned up, put his tracks on on his Macbook, and then sang along and danced around like a crazy person. It was basically a bloke dancing to a CD and singin...

of course KJI wasn't there, do you have any idea how f**king busy he is?...

He clearly didn't check the contributors' bar recommendations then. I'm sure he would have loved C's...

@hotshotdebut The banners were there from lunchtime (at least) and the police started taking them down about 2pm. The whole incident lasted around an hour...

Thank you, thank you, thank you. With the weather getting better the last few days i was just wondering whether Kommune stil did this and now i know. I went last summer and it is amazing. With next...

has anyone else seen the film 苹果? Unfortunately, I don't think places like this are all that rare...

Sina is now saying that the festival is definitely off, although there's been no official announcement today. The most likely scenario is that a postponement will be officially announced tomorrow, w...

apparently this debacle cost £750,000, much cheaper than the proposed costs for the London Olympics and i'll bet far more entertaining. Maybe London can forgo the actual Olympics in 2012 and just hold...

some interesting speculation on cloud seeding from China Sports Today...

Glad you liked it James. You're right though, if you're taking people you need to warn them about the waiting room bit. To be honest, for me, that's all part of the experience... you can always take...

"hey irene, where do you usual hang out ? if by any chance closing by why not let's meet up and have a drink, we can further chat about how we love our country and the Olympic, what do you think sweet...

she won the BBC 3 World Music Award for Asia in the end by the way... http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/worldmusic/a4wm2008/2008_sa_ding_ding.shtml...

Maybe the "dapper" donkey is meant to be Hillary?...

Another good win. I hope the pitch invader didn't get in too much trouble, I thought he made a fair point -- Ricard didn't look bothered the whole game, he just fell over a lot. The ever-excellent fa...